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Yaqeen Hammad, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, was shredded into pieces by an Israeli missile attack on her residence. Yaqeen has been aptly called the Anne Frank of Gaza. Like Anne, who kept a diary in an attic in a Holocaust-ravaged, Nazi-occupied neighbourhood, Yaqeen documented the horrors around her. Her diaries – digital this time – became a record of the brutalities faced by her people.

One hundred and thirty days have passed since Donald Trump took oath as the second time President of United States on January 20 this year. After arousing big expectations in the initial days, the hyperactive President is now gradually reconciling to the fact that he is a big failure. “Trump Always Chickens Out” a label that the Chinese netizens had coined for him as afraid of a fight with China on tariffs. Trump had raised US tariffs on Chinese goods to 145% and in stages brought that down to 30% even before negotiations started.

NEW YORK: Cracks have begun to emerge in the Trump-Musk relationship as the latter has shown his disappointment with President Donald Trump on the recent domestic policy endorsed by the Congress. He said in a TV interview that he was "disappointed" that it would increase the federal deficit.

Congress party’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor’s roar is unlikely to pierce Congress eardrums. No, but fielding a former BJP uproot to take on Tharoor’s eloquence does speak of a bankruptcy of credible leaders in the grand old party. Does Tharoor give the impression of ‘irreplaceable’? You may not be able to say that about Rahul Gandhi, but Udit Raj? C'mon, that's stretching the imagination.

While there are reports of the dreaded Covid-19 making a reappearance in several countries, including India, the picture is not gloomy, as the world today, under the guidance of the latest WHO agreement on Covid-19 seems better equipped and coordinated to face the disease.

The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged USD 70–80billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to USD 180–200 billion. Now in 2025, total disaster costs are estimated USD 2.3trillion annually when losses to health, education, livelihoods, ecosystems and supply chains are factored in. That is nearly ten times the annual direct losses reported in official figures.

In Portugal, the full right wing turn of the country’s politics is complete with the centre right Democratic Alliance (AD) emerging as the largest single party with 91 seats, followed by the far right Chega with 60 seats putting the Socialist Party (PS) at third position at 58 seats. The minority ruling AD led by the Prime Minister Luis Montenegro is expected to continue his minority government rule in the house of 230 where 116 seats are needed for a majority.

BERLIN: This month, Die Linke met for its congress in Chemnitz, under the motto “Organizing Hope.” Such a slogan would have seemed out of touch the last time it held such a meet-up in October 2024. Back then, activists were surely hopeful for Die Linke’s future, despite a damaging split by the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW). Yet in many polls, the party didn’t even register, and it feared falling out of parliament altogether.

New Delhi: A special seminar was organized by ‘My Home India’ on the eve of the birth anniversary of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on Tuesday, May 27, at New Maharashtra Sadan in New Delhi. A resolution was passed there for spreading Savarkar’s philosophy among youth across India.

The impeachment of Allahabad High Court judge Yashwant Varma in the wake of burnt notes being discovered from his residence appears to be a certainty. However, going by past experience, impeachment has rarely functioned as an effective deterrent against judicial misconduct in India.